BILL ANALYSIS
AB 1204
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Date of Hearing: January 13, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Anna Marie Caballero, Chair
AB 1204 (Huber and Gaines) - As Amended: January 4, 2010
SUBJECT : El Dorado County Transportation Commission.
SUMMARY : Revises the membership of the El Dorado County
Transportation Commission (EDCTC). Specifically, this bill :
1)Adds an additional member to EDCTC to be appointed by the
county board of supervisors, revising the number of
representatives that are appointed by the county board of
supervisors from three to four members.
2)Revises the appointments made by incorporated cities within El
Dorado County to specify that there shall be two members
appointed by the city council of each incorporated city
(excluding cities in the Tahoe Basin), unless there is only
one incorporated city, in which case that city shall have
three appointed members.
3)Declares that if the Commission on State Mandates determines
that this bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those
costs shall be made pursuant to state law.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Creates the El Dorado County Transportation Planning Agency,
otherwise known as the
El Dorado County Transportation Commission, to provide regional
transportation planning for the area of El Dorado County,
exclusive of the Tahoe Basin.
2)Provides EDCTC is composed of six members, with three members
appointed by the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors and
three members appointed by the city council of the City of
Placerville.
3)Provides for the composition of other county transportation
commissions.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
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COMMENTS :
1)EDCTC was designated as the Regional Transportation Planning
Agency (RTPA) for
El Dorado County on July 23, 1975. In 1993, EDCTC was
administratively reorganized and separated from El Dorado
County, actions that were codified in state statute by SB 902
(Leslie), Chapter 436, Statutes of 1996.
2)As the RTPA, EDCTC serves as the planning and programming
authority for transportation projects on the western slope of
El Dorado County (County), excluding those areas within the
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency boundaries. EDCTC is the forum
for making policy decisions about the regional transportation
system in the County, and is responsible for allocating local,
state, and federal funds for a variety of transportation
projects including highway improvements and road maintenance,
relief of traffic congestion, and promotion of economic
development. EDCTC's funding streams come from the State
Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), the Regional
Surface Transportation Program (RSTP), the Congestion
Mitigation and Air Quality Program (CMAQ), and the
Transportation Development Act (TDA).
3)AB 1204 is an author-sponsored bill introduced for the purpose
of revising the membership of EDCTC in order to represent the
heavily populated El Dorado Hills region of the County, an
area that is currently underrepresented, in terms of
population, on EDCTC. The author notes that "the population
of El Dorado Hills, in the unincorporated area of El Dorado
County, is approximately 35,000, while the population of the
City of Placerville is approximately 10,000." Moreover, "with
the rapid growth in El Dorado Hills, the population trends and
transportation needs within the county have changed
dramatically since the structure for the agency was adopted 13
years ago."
4)In July of 2009, EDCTC established a 14-person advisory
committee, made up of citizens from throughout El Dorado
County, for the purpose of discussing the current composition
of EDCTC and providing a recommendation with respect to the
future representative composition of EDCTC. The advisory
committee held eight meetings over a three-month period,
including town hall meetings held at various locations
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throughout the County. The recommendations developed by the
advisory committee were presented to the EDCTC on December 3,
2009. In addition, the Policy Advisory Committee to EDCTC
(comprised of technical staff from the County, City of
Placerville, the County's Transit Authority, CalTrans, and the
Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) also developed
a recommendation which was presented at the meeting. EDCTC
voted unanimously to adopt language which is substantially
similar to the contents of AB 1204.
5)The current EDCTC makeup consists of three members of the El
Dorado County Board of Supervisors and three members of the
Placerville City Council. The Caltrans District 3 Director
and a City of South Lake Tahoe Council member serve as
ex-officio members of the Commission.
6)AB 1204 would revise the membership of EDCTC by adding one
member from the county board of supervisors, increasing from
three to four representatives. Right now there is only one
incorporated city - Placerville - in the County (outside of
the Tahoe Basin), and thus under AB 1204, the number of
appointments from the City of Placerville would remain at the
current level of three members. AB 1204 plans for future
growth by giving any newly incorporated city two seats on
EDCTC. A newly incorporated city in the future means that the
City of Placerville would reduce its number of appointments
from three to two members, and then two members would be
appointed by the new city.
7)COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS : The committee may wish to ask the
author to take the following committee amendments to specify
that the change to the membership of EDCTC contained in AB
1204 does not constitute a reimbursable mandate because the
local governments in El Dorado County are requesting the
statutory change.
Strike Section 2 of the bill and instead replace with:
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6
of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the
only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district are the result of a program for which legislative
authority was requested by that local agency or school
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district, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code and Section 6 of Article XIII B of the
California Constitution.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
El Dorado County Transportation Commission
Four Seasons Civic League
Individual letters (4)
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Debbie Michel / L. GOV. / (916)
319-3958